Description
Both security experts and attackers study network traffic to search for vulnerabilities. In this Lab, you will examine a network traffic trace, commonly known as a “pcap” file, to identify suspicious behaviors, e.g., port scanning.
Port scanning is a technique used by attackers to find vulnerable hosts that have services listening on certain ports. In a SYN scan attack, the scanner sends TCP SYN packets and wait replies from hosts that send back SYN+ACK packets. Since most hosts are not prepared to receive connections on any given port, during a port scan, a much smaller number of hosts will respond with SYN+ACK packets than originally received SYN packets. By observing this phenomenon in a trace file, you can identify source addresses that may be launching a port scan.
You are asked to develop a Java program, e.g., scannerfinder.java, which analyzes a pcap file in order to detect possible SYN scans. You might want to use a library for packet manipulation and dissection, e.g., jNetPcap. The jNetPcap library is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jnetpcap or https://github.com/ruedigergad/clj-netpcap (the original jnetpcap.com page is down for unknown reason). You can find more information about parsing a .pcap file via https://javatutotial.net/tag/jnetpcap (there are quite a few such pages on Google). Your program will take the pcap file to be analyzed as a command-line parameter, e.g.,
java scannerfinder ./capture.pcap
The output of your program should be the set of IP addresses (one per line) that sent more than 3 times as many SYN packets as the number of SYN+ACK packets they received. A sample .pcap file captured from a real network can be found in the attachment . This trace file is provided by the LBNL/ICSI Enterprise Tracing Project. For this input, part of your program’s output should look like (order of IP addresses could be different):
128.3.23.5
128.3.164.249
128.3.23.158
Submit your solution, the scannerfinder.java file as well as the output.txt file.
You could assume that
jNetPcap library is available on the grader’s computer.
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